Sunday, October 18, 2009

Zotz!

"Castle, who went on to produce 'Rosemary's Baby,' is still remembered as a great showman and huckster. But those labels fail to convey the basic generosity and childlike innocence of his outlook. It's true that he was always thinking up a sales pitch, but beyond that, he was a wide-eyed entertainer who believed that movies did not simply begin and end on the screen, and that the filmgoing experience was above all a communal one."

Dennis Lim in the Los Angeles Times recalls the oeuvre of William Castle.

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